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Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. special envoy to Sudan reluctantly agreed Thursday that he is negotiating with a government that is carrying out genocide in Darfur in western Sudan.

Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, under questioning by a House subcommittee, said he has never met Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is accused by the International Criminal Court of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.

However, Gration conceded he deals with senior officials of the Bashir government. When asked if the Bashir government was leading the genocide in Darfur, and therefore the United States was negotiating with perpetrators of genocide, Gration answered: "That's correct."

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- "Hotel Rwanda" star Don Cheadle got a first-hand view of horror when he traveled to the devastated Darfur region of Sudan in 2005.

He saw what it's like in an area in which tens of thousands have died and many more have been rendered homeless.

He came back inspired to try to help. And this Thursday, he'll return to one of the efforts that has had the most impact.

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Pete Wentz of Fallout Boy and the team from Invisible Children appeared on June 2nd's Larry King Live to discuss Central Africa's violent and ongoing insurgency led by the Lord's Resistance Army. 

To preview their appearance, Enough co-founder John Prendergast wrote a blog post about the issue. Check out the post here. 

To get more background on conflict in Uganda check out our regional coverage here.

For an in depth look at the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army and how you can help stop them, check out this special report.

 Enough's conflict minerals campaign and YouTube contest was profiled on CNN's Inside Africa.  Watch the video here.

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 In addition to Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama has inherited another military challenge started by his predecessor. This off-the-radar drama is unfolding under the forest canopy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Its consequences could end up becoming deadlier than the two better-known cases, unless the Obama administration demonstrates the leadership of which it is capable.

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UNITED NATIONS (CNN)  -- Murder and justice have always been hallmarks of the "Law & Order" stable of TV shows, but never before have the fictional New York City crimes guided the show's detectives and attorneys to the United Nations -- until now.

The U.N. recently opened the gates of its New York headquarters to the NBC Universal show "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" for the filming of an episode scheduled to air Tuesday.

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John Prendergast spoke with Reggie Aqui about the current conflicts in Africa on CNN. 

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John Prendergast discusses the ICC's arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir on CNN's Newsroom:

JOHN PRENDERGAST, CO-FOUNDER, THE ENOUGH FOUNDATION: Well, let's look at where he stands in the pantheon of war criminals since the Holocaust. He's responsible -- his regime is responsible for the deaths of about 2.5 million people, either directly or indirectly, over the last 20 years. First in a war in the south and then now in a war in Darfur over the last five or six years. So this guy is -- ranks right up there with some of the great war criminals of the last century. So -- and often along with being a war criminal comes this attitude. This very cavalier attitude about international justice.

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The 25-minute audio recording, titled "From Kabul to Mogadishu," focuses primarily on the "important developments" in Somalia, which al-Zawahiri called "a step on the path of victory of Islam."

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Hours after newly elected Somalian President Sheikh Sharif Sheekh Ahmed arrived in the country's capital, mortars were fired Saturday at his presidential palace, according to a journalist who witnessed the incident.